High enthusiasm about long lasting mentoring relationships and older mentors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mentoring plays a pivotal role in workplace-based learning, especially in the medical realm. Organising a formal mentoring programme can be labor and time intensive and generally impractical in resource constrained medical schools with limited numbers of mentors. Hence, informal mentoring offers a valuable alternative, but will be more likely to be effective when mentors and protégés share similar views. It is therefore important to gain more insight into factors influencing perceptions of informal mentoring. This study aims to explore mentors and protégés' perceptions of informal mentoring and how these vary (or not) with gender, age and the duration of the relationship.

Method

We administered an Informal Mentor Role Instrument (IMRI) to medical practitioners and

SUBMITTER: Mohtady HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6757421 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature